Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
August 1765
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 11 (Miscellany); Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 2
La Bruyère, Jean de, 1645-1696
Notes:
Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue
Valued at 1s in Du Simitière estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 5
The author was a French writer and moralist known for his Caractères (1688), based on a translation of the Characters of Theophrastus and exposing the vanity and corruption of human behaviour by satirizing Parisian society.
Title Information:
Les caracteres de Theophraste, traduits du grec
Imprint Information:
Paris: E. Michallet,, 1699
Repository:
LCP, call no. Sev Theo 1540.O
